Shoe-fastening



(No Modell.)

W. H. BILL-0N.

- SHOE FASTENING.

No. 338,044. Patented Mar. 16, 1886.

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UNrrsn Sri-tres PATENT @erica IVILLIAM HENRY DILLON, OF GLASGOV, KENTUCKY.

SHOE-FASTEMNG.

FECIFICATEON forming part o Letters Patent No. 338,044. dated March 16. 1886.

Serial No. 180,200. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM HENRY DIL- LoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Glasgow, in the county of Barren and State of Kentucy, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe-Fastenings; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, which will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertainsto make and use the saine, reference being had to the accompanying d rawings, which form a part of this specification, and in which- Figures l and 2 are perspective views of as much of a shoe as is necessary to show my invention, Fig. l illustrating the invention applied to a shoe designed as a button-shoe, and Fig. 2 showing it applied to a lace-shoe. Fig. 3 is a View of the inner portion of one ot' the fasteners, and Figs. 4, 4, 5, and Ware sectional views of the different forms of the eyelet-fastenings.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding vparts in all the figures.

My invention has relation to lace-eyes for shoes; and it consists in the improved construction and combination of parts of a laceeye and its fastening, as hereinatter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, the letter A indicates the portion of the shoe upon which the buttons in a button-shoe are secured, and Bis the iap, which in such ashoe is provided with the button-holes. The lace-eyes C are secured upon the outer side ot the portion A at a distance from the edge, and upon the inner side of portion B, near the edge, so that they will register' or be on a line with those upon A, and consist of a round eye, D, having flat Shanks E E, which are formed with oblong perforations F. The rivet G passes through the leather of the shoe and through these perforations, and is riveted over the edges ofthe perforation in the exposed shank, the opposite or inner ends of the rivets upon the portion A being flat and smooth, and the outer` ends of the rivets upon the portion B being round, as shown at II, to imitate a shoebntton. A lace-cord, J, is passed through the lace-eyes, being secured at the lower end of the free edges of the parts of the shoe, and may he secured at its upper end in any suitable form of a lace holding or clamping device.

Vhen the lace-cord is drawn tight and secured at its upper end, the edges of the portions A and B of the shoe are drawn together, so that the greater part ofthe eyelets and their fastenings are covered, and the shoe will have the appearance of a button-shoe, while it will have the advantage of heilig easily opened by simply releasing the cord, when the shoe may be removed from the foot, or in closing the parts together hy drawing the cord and securing its end.

In Fig. 2 the eyes are shown secured upon the inner sides of the portions of the shoe at each side of the slit. and thereupon passed out through apertures L in the said portions, and the rivets are shown considerably smaller, so as to be less conspicuous than the buttons shown in Fig. I, it being desirablein this form of a lace-eye to sho\Y as little of the eye and its fastening as possible. Two lace-cords are preferably used in this form of lacing, and the cords are operated in the usual manner, drawing them upward, and consequently drawing lthe portions together.

In Fig. 5 the shanlts of the eye are shown clamping both sides of the leather at the edge of the same, the rivet passing through the per forated shanks and holding them together, and this fastening is more desirable where itis not desired to draw the edges of the two portions very close together, while when it is desired to draw the edges of the portions close together, so as to cause one to overlap the other, the form shown in Fig. 2 is the most desirable, the same 'forni being shown in section in Fig. 5.

In Fig. et is shown in section the form used in the shoe made in imitation of a button-shoe, and in Fig. it is shown a form in which the button part of the fastening is separate from the rivet. It will be noticed that I use afastening having an oblong aperture and a rivet having an oblong shank.

The inner sides of the outer ends of the laceeyes are rounded, so as to prevent cutting or any undue wear of the eyes upon the cords.

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HavingA thus described my invention, Ielaim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States- The combination, with the iiaps of a shoe,

5 of two series of lace-eyes riveted thereto7 said rivets having oblong Shanks, and the Shanks of the lace-eyes having oblong apertures, vas shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my ow'n- I have hereunto aiixed my signature in presence of two Witnesses.

VILLIAM HENRY DILLON.

Vitnesses:

GHISTOPIIER C. PARE, WILLIAM B. SMITH. 

